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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes

  Monday Jun 30 | via Realty Trac 

  Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage

Local Headlines

• Biloxi, Miss.

  Friday Jul 18 | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  Beau Rivage Resort and Casino returned to glory as the crown jewel of the Mississippi Gulf Coast one year after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region.

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  Related Topix: Biloxi, MS, Biloxi Metro, Transportation, Airlines, AirTran Holdings, Housing, Travel

• Hope Community Credit Union breaks ground

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via Sunherald.com 

  Construction officially began this week on the Hope Community Credit Union at the corner of Porter and Howard avenues in Biloxi.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Biloxi, MS

• Coast city sees slow but steady recovery

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via The Clarion-Ledger 

  Before Hurricane Katrina, this city of 18,000 was known as a bedroom community with friendly people and small businesses that provided personal service and good food.

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  Related Topix: Small Business, Hurricane, Natural Disasters, Home, Mortgage, Long Beach, MS

• Buy My House! - Part 2

  Saturday Jun 28 | via WLOX-TV Biloxi 

  When selling, homeowners can control two things: the price and condition of their homes.

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  Related Topix: Ocean Springs, MS, Biloxi, MS, Biloxi Metro, Real Estate

• Vines Realty branches out

  Jun 20, 2008 | via Hattiesburg American 

  Vines Realty and Land is a family business that is branching out. The Oak Grove-based real estate company celebrated the launch of its business June 3 with an Area Development Partnership ribbon-cutting ...

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  Related Topix: Harrison County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Real Estate, Housing, Hattiesburg Metro, Hattiesburg, MS

Regional Headlines

• North Mississippi home builder developing Steeplechase near Oxford

  Jan 15, 2007 | via Memphis Business Journal 

  About 80 miles southeast of Memphis is a small Mississippi University town that is booming, and Tommy White wanted to make sure he had a piece of the action with his new Steeplechase development, located ...

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  Related Topix: University, MS, Batesville, MS, University of Tennessee System, Memphis (University of Tennessee System), Housing, Mississippi, Lafayette County, MS

• Down payment aid programs scrutinized

  Sunday Jul 6 | via The Clarion-Ledger 

  Local housing experts say down payment assistance programs aren't the best way to purchase a home and build equity, but they recognize their importance in Mississippi because of residents' low median income.

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  Related Topix: Mississippi, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Home Buying

• Miss. Realtors Required To Disclose Meth Lab Houses

  Saturday Jul 5 | via WAPT.com 

  Mississippi home buyers will soon be able to find out if the house they want to purchase was used as a meth lab.

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  Related Topix: Mississippi Government, Mississippi, Real Estate

• Miss., La. To Use Mortgage Licensing System

  Friday Jun 27 | via WAPT 

  Mississippi and Louisiana are among the six states that will start using the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System next Tuesday.

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  Related Topix: Mississippi Government, Mississippi, Mortgage, Home

• Home sales plummet despite lower prices

  Thursday Jun 26 | via The Mississippi Press 

  From January to May, Jackson County homes sold for an average of 20 percent less compared to that same time period last year, local Realtors and Multiple Listing Service data say.

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  Related Topix: Mississippi, Foreclosures, Latimer, MS, Hurley, MS, Big Point, MS, Wade, MS

National Headlines

• U.S. Senate to Vote on Housing Bill

  15 min ago | via RedOrbit 

  The U.S. Senate, meeting in a rare weekend session, was poised Saturday to pass a landmark housing bill meant to ease the effects of mortgage crisis.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• U.s. Congress Passes...

  16 min ago | via 102.9 CKDS-FM 

  U.S. Congress passed a housing rescue bill Saturday aimed at sparing 400,000 struggling homeowners from foreclosure.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, George Bush, US Politics, US News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Bill heads to Bush for signature

  16 min ago | via WLOS 

  The Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at helping thousands of struggling homeowners fight off foreclosure.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Federal Regulators Close Two More Banks

  17 min ago | via Z 106.7 Jackson 

  Federal regulators have closed two banks in the West, saying they were undercapitalized due to the poor performance of home mortgage loans.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Reno Metro, Reno, NV

• Housing rescue bill heads to Bush for signature

  17 min ago | via Examiner.com 

  Jul 26, 2008 10:03 AM By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, AP Newly built homes are offered for sale at the Brookville & Heirloom development by Lennar, in Valencia, Calif.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Home Listing, Home